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Fr. Matt Hartley is the chaplain for the Benedictine Nuns at the Abbey of St. Walburga. After growing up on a farm in Michigan, Fr. Matt had a reversion back to the Catholic faith in college while working as a network analyst. After listening to the Gospels during his commute and getting to know Christ, he listened to a talk on the Eucharist, thinking, "If this is true, my entire universe has just changed." It is true, the Eucharist is Jesus, and everything is different. If you are interested in a 1-hour spiritual direction from Father Matt, please request time by emailing: aswretreats@gmail.com 

Jeremie Solak, MA, is the President and Founder of Sól Recruiting, Coaching, and Consulting.  Before founding Sól, Jeremie spent over 20 years of experience in education–as a headmaster, principal, professor, teacher, and homeschooling parent. He is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University and studied philosophy at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. Jeremie founded Sól to build the Kingdom, the Catholic Church, human flourishing, and the common good. In collaboration with a great team, these goals are accomplished through strategic recruiting, coaching that supports the authentic role of work, and consulting and training designed to deepen teamwork centered around noble missions. Currently living on the Front Range of Colorado, Jeremie and his family are originally from Michigan. He and his wife, Celeste, have seven children, four grandchildren, and love their parish, Corpus Christi, a bright hearth, Michigan beaches, and hiking in the Mountain West.

Father Joseph LaJoie was raised in Aurora, Colorado. Though not interested in participating in athletics growing up, he enjoys lifting heavy things, hikes, bike rides, and experiencing the beauty of God’s creation in Colorado and anywhere it can be found in the Western United States. He was raised as a Catholic and varying levels of interest in his faith through the years. He was received the Sacrament of Confirmation at the conclusion of 8th grade in 1996, and he traces it back to that moment that the idea of the priesthood began entering his mind as a thought. Continuing through high school and into college, the idea kept coming in, but he kept pushing back out, thinking that it would go against everything he wanted out of life and that there was no way happiness for him could be found in it. After the death of a close family member followed by the death of Saint John Paul II between February and April of 2005, Joseph began to be open that perhaps this was an inspiration by God and that it might be worth at least considering as a path. After a weekend retreat in early 2006, Joseph had a life-shifting experience of the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, hearing Him speak for the first time in prayer, and that led Joseph to a long-delayed visit to the confessional, all of which brought about a deep conversion in his life and brought him into seminary studies and formation for the priesthood a mere six months later. Since being ordained to the holy priesthood, Father Joseph has served as a parochial vicar in Glenwood Springs and Littleton and as a pastor in downtown Denver and Fort Collins. In a strange human twist, but with God’s perfect rhyming, Father Joseph is now pastor of Saint John XXIII in Fort Collins and head chaplain at RamCatholic. He is also a member of the Companions of Christ, an association of archdiocesan priests who desire to live common life together and to be on mission with his brother priests. Father Joseph started his long college career at Colorado State University in the Fall of 2000 when he was running away from the idea of the priesthood and he now finds himself back – across the street – as a priest who is the one spiritually responsible for the care of souls at CSU. He is deeply grateful to see the work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of young people from a close perspective to see them come alive again – or for the first time – in the knowledge of and love of Jesus Christ, leading them to our Loving and Merciful Father.